A “final round” of talks between Baghdad and Erbil on the budget
Baghdad: Morning… The negotiating delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government, headed by Qubad Talabani, deputy head of the regional government, resumed its meetings in Baghdad on the budget, with weights to approve it at the end of this week, so that these discussions would be a “last round”, to agree on the region’s allocations and the management of the oil file.
First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hassan Karim Al-Kaabi warned against compromising or reducing the allocations of the social welfare network in light of the outbreak of the Corona pandemic and the economic crisis that Iraq is going through, and he said in a statement: “The decision to increase the exchange rate of the dollar has contributed significantly to reducing the amount of salaries in general and making The value of the dinar is very weak, and the burden of the poor and middle classes is exhausted. Al-Kaabi was surprised by the deletion of the article agreed upon in the draft budget, in the presence of the Minister of Labor, related to increasing social welfare allocations.